Amedeo Mapelli & Ani Liu
Amedeo Mapelli
Amedeo is a Boston based software engineer and the creator of Simmetri, an engine and application designed for creating interactive art and 3D experiences for screens, projections and virtual reality. His talk will comprise of an intro followed by a live demo where we'll build an interactive show together (with suggestions welcomed!) to see how its editing environment works.
Ani Liu
Ani is an artist, designer, and speculative technologist currently conducting research in the Design Fiction group at MIT Media Lab. Her work deals with the intersection between technology, the mediated body, culture & the sensorium. Through engineering 'cultural prosthetics,' Ani's work employs the language and tools of design to pose questions, reveal embedded assumptions about our world, and to inspire us to imagine possible futures.